Putting Assessment in Its Place

Assessment
What can you do with four minutes?You can close down the report and check the clock, update your to-do list, sort through your mail, or respond to a minor email query. There are lots of important tasks you can do in four minutes. And if you don’t do them now, you’ll just have to find another four minutes later. Of course, none of this matters if you have plenty of time and too little to do, but most institutions have finite resources and must be deliberate in how they use them. Program assessment presents a special challenge to resource allocation, requiring a similarly deliberate approach.

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